Ariana Grande files a lawsuit in Los Angeles against anonymous hackers who allegedly stole and sold unreleased music, photos, and videos via the dark web (Derrick Bryson Taylor/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/arts/music/ariana-grande-hackin…
Dolly Parton locked an unreleased song she recorded in 2015 in a chestnut box inside the DreamMore Resort at Dollywood that can only be opened on January 19, 2046 https://www.vice.com/en/article/dolly-parton…
Anthropic's cryptanalysis results on HAWK and AES show AI can now understand existing cryptanalysis results, turn them into new attacks, and even extend them (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts ...)
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/2…
POL-DH: Durchsuchungserfolg in Barver - Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung der Staatsanwaltschaft Verden (Aller) und der Polizeiinspektion Diepholz Diepholz (ots) - Die Polizei hat unter Sachleitung der Staatsanwaltschaft Verden (Aller) am 26.08.2026 resultierend aus einem Ermittlungskomplex wegen unerlaubten Handels mit Betäubungsmitteln (BtM) bei einem 62-jährigen Tatverdächtigen aus ...
Treating adversaries better than allies is a recipe for isolation
America’s adversaries, especially those with nuclear weapons, sometimes seem to be treated more kindly by Donald Trump than the country’s oldest friends.
Such U.S. unreliability risks encouraging nuclear proliferation by pushing countries to look out for themselves.
Last week underscored the dynamic:
Trump rolled out the red carpet in Washington for Chinese President Xi Jinping
while continuing …
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Ox Alpha, a "stealth model" from an unknown AI lab with a 1M-token multimodal context and capacity for 100T tokens/day, goes viral after launching on OpenRouter (Rohail Saleem/Wccftech)
https://wccftech.com/a-my…